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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.

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How long you have · Twenty minutes
A minute 2Five minutes 5Twenty minutes 5Longer 4
Who it is written for
A practitioner 4Me 3Someone I care about 3My husband or wife 2
Where you are right now · Struggling right now
Getting ready for something 7Coping, mostly 7Struggling right now 5
On your own, or with someone
On my own 3Both of us together 1Involves someone else 1
Theme · Treatment and medication
What ADHD actually is 10Systems for daily life 7Screens and attention 7Feelings and focus 6Food, caffeine and fuel 6Medication and how it works 6Moving your body 6Reading, numbers and learning differences 5Shame 5Tolerate distress 5Treatment and medication 5Get started 5Your nervous system 4Cool the body first 4Being seen and judged 3Shame and stigma 3Emotions as signals 3Exercise, food and other supports 3What anger actually is 2Choosing your response 2Letting it out safely 2Remembering to do it 2When you use something to cope 2What worry does 2Breaking the worry loop 1The cost of avoiding 1Equanimity and perspective 1Getting assessed and diagnosed 1Grounding and settling 1When everything feels flat 1Obsessions and compulsions 1Question the thought 1Your sense of time 1Living with uncertainty 1Use your strengths 1What you are actually defending 1Anger, alcohol and the body 1
Approach
Medical and treatment 4ADHD skills 1
When
Any ordinary day 4In a change 1

Massage may well leave you calmer, and calmer is worth having. It is not a treatment for ADHD, and the two are worth keeping in separate boxes.

Living with ADHD is stressful in a measurable way, so anything that genuinely lowers that load is doing real good and deserves a place. The error is…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 4:28

Do not write off simply sitting with someone. When researchers looked into why dummy treatments helped, one of the things they kept finding was half an hour of a person's full attention.

Thirty minutes of someone listening properly to your difficulties is not filler around the real treatment. Across the talking therapies, who the…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 3:159

Move the family's picture from a child who will not do as they are asked to a child whose capacity for holding themselves in place is genuinely limited. It is a change of category, not a softening.

The moral version has a quiet arrogance in it, the assumption that the child could manage if only they cared enough, and everyone in the house can…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 24:61

A great many people are diagnosed and then left with a starting dose nobody ever revisited, no reading, no group, nothing else at all. If things have stalled, the first thing to check is whether the treatment was ever actually finished.

Optimising is unglamorous and often the quickest thing available. Was the dose ever adjusted upwards, and on what basis. Does the cover reach the…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 65:2

If the prescriber, coach or therapist is not delivering much, say so and ask for someone else. Working around poor care quietly is the thing that convinces a couple this is simply as good as it gets.

A dose never revisited, or a therapist who has never worked with ADHD, sets a low ceiling. The trouble is that the ceiling gets read as the person:…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 12:87

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